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...Europe. One minor coup is the secret of the nut crescents for which the Austrian embassy in Washington, D.C., is renowned. Other fairly easy to make entries include Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' chocolate cookies, chocolate pepper pretzels, Joe froggers cookies (named for the inhabitants of a Marblehead, Mass., frog pond) and an inviting array of souffles and mousses, notably a sour lime mousse with strawberries. Frozen desserts vary from San Francisco ice-cream pie to a delectable grapefruit ice. As for the confection she labels "the Best Damn Lemon Cake" . . . it may just be that...
...seemed aloof and distracted as he moved through the shoals and eddies of café society, it may have been because he was, at heart, a maker of magazines. He pioneered foreign editions (the British, French and German versions of Vogue, known round the office as Brogue, Frog and Grog), introduced color photography and invented the "bleed" (borderless) page. He spent his idle hours analyzing advertising and circulation figures. Nast once confessed: "I am merely a glorified bookkeeper...
Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa Famous Last Words, Timothy Findley ∙ The Frog Who Dared to Croak, Richard Sennett ∙Mantissa, John Fowles∙ Someone Else's Money, Michael M. Thomas ∙The Woods, David Plante
...much to learn. The son of a Jewish banker named Von Grau, a furtive homosexual, a teacher and philosopher of sorts, he survives wartime exile in Stalin's U.S.S.R. by following the principle: "You must lie to survive. But what is a lie?" The tale of the frogs keeps reappearing in new forms. Military Interpreter Grau tells it to some German war prisoners as a parable of how an arrogant team of jumping frogs lost at the Olympics. During the Hungarian revolt of 1956, finally, Grau becomes one of six Hungarians designated to negotiate with the Soviets, and instead...
...reactions to Sennett's Frog since its publication earlier this summer have also been somewhat ambiguous. Prize-winning Author Donald Barthelme praised it as "a most thoughtful meditation on the sociology of power," but the New York Times said that the "brilliant" Sennett "knows too much for a novelist." Sennett disputes the contradiction. He not only sees Frog as a counterpart to his previous book of social criticism, Authority (1980), but sees both as the beginning of an eight-part series (four of them novels) on the main emotional relations underlying modern society: authority, solitude, fraternity and ritual...